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"It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors.”15 Scathing Early Reviews of Classic Novels
This week's house envy: Cedar House
Friend by Paek Nam-nyong is a bestseller from North Korea. I'm intrigued and have added it to my To Read list.
A new bike path directly connects New York City to Canada The route from NYC to Buffalo is largely off-road. There is also a route that leads to Montreal.See the interactive map. C'mon up.
The Women Who Resisted the Nazis in Britain's Channel Islands
Vocodes is a vocal playground that converts text to speech using famous voices. Via Pasa Bon
This looks like something Jeff Koons would give to his girlfriend: Sterling "balloon dog" ring ($99) Via
How to open packaged scissors when you have no scissors. You're welcome. (h/t Bruce)
Listen to a Soviet-era jazz compilation. Via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese
Wear your repairs with pride – inside the modern mending movement
A syllabus from the future: Food Pasts, Food Futures, TheCulinary History of COVID-19
A definitive guide to the Doctor Who Theme Music Via MeFi
A bit of folklore for you: Telling the bees
An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail', the episode that changed 'The Simpsons'
The Great Plague of 1665 Through the Eyes of Samuel Pepys
Cat poop coffee? No thanks.
Explore Frida Kahlo's Blue House Through A Museum Virtual Tour
Murder by Instant Message, the first internet based homicide.
Texas Crow made me laugh.
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sopranos
How can we understand and perceive the human scale within constructed spaces? The Human Scale: India At Eye Level
"Sorry, Andrew!" That's terrific. What a great story.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read the link /The Girl Who Cleaned the Bathroom/ I immediately thought it would turn out to be about the movie /Jupiter Ascending/. She ends up owning whole solar systems and she still cleans toilets, because she loves her family. But she's not embarrassed.
There's a whole bunch of toilet embarrassing stories, if not necessarily about cleaning up. I'm thinking of the scrotum-caught-in-the-zipper story in /Something About Mary/, and horrible date stories often center on a toilet embarrassment.
I just googled toilet embarrassing and there it all is. Thank you for reminding me. I'll be reading dozens of them on the radio Friday night.